Ukraine’s WTO Accession: Challenge for Domestic Economic Reforms

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December 11th, 2002, 17:00-19:30

Opening Session

Chair: Ihor Burakovsky, Co-Director, Institute for Economic Research, Kiev

Mykola Azarov, First Vice-prime-minister

Roger Lawrence, Resident Trade Expert on WTO accession, ÑLDP of the US Department of Commerce

Borys Tarasyuk, Head of the Parliamentary Committee on European Integration

Andriy Honcharuk, State secretary, Ministry of Economics and European Integration

Lutz Hoffmann, Co-Head of the German Advisory Group

19:30-21:00 Reception

December 12th, 2002, 9:30-20:00

Session 1. Assessing Implications of WTO Membership

Chair: Iryna Akimova, Co-Director, Institute for Economic Research, Kyiv
Introduction

9:30-11:00

Klaus Gunter Deutsch, DB Research - Buro Berlin
“WTO Accession and Related Trade Strategies: Lessons for Ukraine”

Marat Uzyakov, Vice-Director, Institute of Economic Forecasting, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
“Economy – Wide Implications of Russia’s WTO Accession”

Discussion

11:00–11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:45

Philip Schuler, Consultant, Development Research Group, World Bank
“Implementation of WTO Agreements: the Challenges Facing Ukraine”

Andriy Honcharuk, State secretary, Ministry of Economics and European Integration
"Ukraine and WTO: State of Negotiations and Eventual Implications for Ukraine's Membership in WTO"

Discussion

13:00-14:00 Lunch

Session 2. Competition Policy/ Industrial Policy

Chair: Yuriy Yekhanurov, Head of the Parliamentary Committee on Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship
Introduction

14:00-16:00

Peter Holmes, Jean Monnet Reader in the Economics of European Integration, University of Sussex
"Competition Policy and the WTO: Balancing Market Access and Development Needs" (presented by Roman Cech, member of the German Advisory Group)

Zdenek Drabek, Senior Advisor, Development and Economic Research Division, World Trade Organization, Geneva
“Impact of WTO Accessions on Policy Making”

Discussion

Rudiger Ahrend, OECD, Paris
“The Problem of Subsidisation of the Industrial Sector through the Energy Sector: Lessons for Ukraine from the Russian and Romanian Case”

Discussion

16:00-16:15 Coffee break

Session 3. Agricultural Policy

16:15-18:15

Chair: Yuriy Luzan, State Secretary of the Ministry of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine
Introduction

James Gaisford, University of Calgary, William A. Kerr, Van Vliet Professor, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
“The DOHA-Round: A New Agreement on Agriculture?”

Discussion

Martin von Lampe, Analyst, OECD, Paris
"Forces Shaping the Outlook for World Grain Markets"

Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel and Sergiy Zorya, University of Gottingen
“The Implications of WTO-Accession for Ukrainian Agricultural Policy”

Discussion

18:15-18:45 Closing Remarks

Valeriy Khoroshkovsky, Minister of Economics and European Integration

Lorenz Schomerus, German Advisory Group, Kiev

18:45 Cocktail